Ahead of the 2015 general elections, indications have emerged that the ruling All Progressive Party, APC, may be in trouble in Osun West Senatorial District, especially in Iwo – a stronghold of the party, and the development may not be unconnected with the alleged senatorial ambition of the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti.
Adeoti, who is from Iwo and former state chairman of the party until his appointment as the SSG in 2011, was reportedly nursing the fear that he may not be returned as the SSG, even if Governor Rauf Aregbesola wins his re-election bid, and was therefore busy strategising, covertly to contest the osun West senatorial ticket with the incumbent, Senator Mudahir Hussein, who hails from Ejigbo, the headquarters of Ejigbo Local Government Area of the state.
But National Mirror investigations revealed that party members in Adeoti’s hometown are not satisfied with the performance of their kinsmen elected on the platform of the party to the state’s House of Assembly and the House of Representatives, Ezekiel Adeyemi and Gafar Akintayo Amere respectively, who they claim were imposed on them by Adeoti in the first place.
The people of Iwo believed that the two men representing them at the two legislative arms, both being the least qualified amongst their peers in their respective parliaments; have failed to give them adequate representation.
In a press statement issued by some party members from Iwo Local Government under the auspices of Concerned Iwo Patriots, and signed by one Babatunde Onileola, Iwo people pledged their continued and unalloyed support to
Aregbesola’s re-election bid, but advised the governor to avoid any form of imposition in the party.
They also alleged that Adeoti was already plotting to single-handedly zone the slot for the House of Representatives for the Ola-Oluwa/ Iwo/Ayedire federal constituency, currently being occupied by an Iwo indigene to Ayedire, apparently to pave way for his ambition; even when the people of Aiyedire have stated categorically that they are not prepared for the post in the next dispensation given the subsisting zoning arrangement in the federal constituency.
Another source who craved anonymity said: “We need to let people know that APC is different from other parties and we are not ready to condone any form of imposition again. People are built around parties, and we don’t want a party where certain individuals will think they can take farreaching decisions from their rooms, except the party is ready for strong divisions.”
Meanwhile, efforts to confirm the development from Adeoti yielded no fruit as his mobile lines were not available as at the time of filing this report.
(nationalmirror)
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